Obama Pledges Another $215 Million For Virtual Strip Search Scanners

02-02-2010
• PrisonPlanet.com

“The $215 million proposal to acquire 500 scanners next
year, combined with the 450 to be bought this year, marks the largest
addition of airport-security equipment since immediately after the 9/11
attacks. There are only 40 body scanners in a total of 19 airports
now,” reports USA Today.

Privacy advocate Marc Rotenberg pointed out that the
scanners were yet another expensive instrument of the war on terror
being used against the American people.

“We’ll have another Homeland Security Department
program for the war on terror used almost exclusively on Americans,”
said Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center.

As we have highlighted, the naked scanners are a boon
for the military-industrial complex and people like former Homeland
Security chief Michael Chertoff, who vigorously promoted their use in the aftermath of the staged underwear bombing, having a huge financial stake in seeing them rolled out nationwide.

Despite the seemingly breakneck speed at which airports
are rushing to adopt the scanners, some are proving to be less
enthusiastic.